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Mash Up Some Genres For Lunch

RAHfanboy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:36 PDT

@flexiverse: I agree totally. Shorts have to be much more tightly crafted than novels, make better movies, and anyone that says they don't like shorts probably doesn't read at all but just watches movies and TV.

RAHfanboy

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Tim Faulkner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:49:16 PDT

The centered text was the worst bit.

Tim Faulkner

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braak — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:43:55 PDT

@Charlie Jane Anders: I'm less bothered by the color scheme than I am by having to have to scroll down. If I have to read something like that for too long, I end up losing my place a lot.

Also, I like traditional, left-aligned text and paragraph breaks.

A vestige of my old eyes and their preference for books.

braak

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loosenut — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:43:16 PDT

I wrote a little Stylish style for that page if anybody firefox users want it:
[userstyles.org]

loosenut

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Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:21:01 PDT

@Gann: Wow, I must have superhuman eyes... it really didn't bother me as much as it did you guys.

Charlie Jane Anders

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Gann — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:50:16 PDT

@braak: Saved the html and changed a few color/background settings. My eyesight's too precious.

Gann

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flexiverse — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:27:41 PDT

Don't Enjoy Short Stories?
My god.
Short Stories are the purest form of science fiction there is out there. It is the form where science fiction was and is created and exits.
If you've not read NightFall, The Nine Billion Names of God, The Sentinal, PKD and others from H.G. Wells etc..
You really shouldn't be reading this blog you aren't a true sci fi person.
I can't believe such philstines read this blog.
A sci-fi short is in effect a blockbuster film, just look at the PKD shorts.
Get a grip and get reading.

flexiverse

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flexiverse — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:23:18 PDT

@Rusty626:

flexiverse

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Rusty626 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:01:25 PDT

Whoa! Excellent story. I don't usually enjoy short stories, since they often seem just a chapter from the novel the author hasn't finished yet. This one was excellently complete.

Rusty626

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braak — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:39:41 PDT

@Charlie Jane Anders: It doesn't matter. I have copied it into a word document, and well send it to my Kindle.

Bwah-ha-ha!

braak

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Seth L — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:39:36 PDT

I'd rather buy the book, but thanks for twigging me to a new author!

Seth L

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Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:24:24 PDT

@braak: I didn't mind it, actually... it's true that she could afford to spend some of her fabulous earnings from writing SF on a new web designer, but whatevs.

Charlie Jane Anders

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braak — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:11:37 PDT

Man, that is not a pleasant form in which to read a story.

braak